Translation, by Robert d'Andilly of: La vida, que el siervo de Dios Gregorio Lopez, printed in Madrid, 1642; it was first printed under title: Vida, que hizo el siervo de Dios Gregorio Lopez in Mexico City, 1613

Gregorio López was a wandering hermit, born in Spain, who left for the New World in 1562. The author and the hermit both lived near the village of Santa Fe. Although López never became a saint, he was accorded the title “venerable”, a distinction rarely given by the church to figures from the Spanish colonies

Signatures: ã⁸ (ã1 verso blank) ẽ² A-2L⁸⁻⁴ 2M⁶ (2M2 and 2M3 missigned 2K2 and 2K3)

Errata: p. [20], 1st count

Woodcut printer's ornament on title page; head and tail pieces; initials

Includes an engraved frontispiece portrait of Gregorio López

Streit, R. Bibliotheca missionum

Palau y Dulcet, A. Manual del librero hispano-americano (2. ed.)

Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus

Cioranescu, A. Bibliographie de la littérature française du dix-septième siècle

Medina, J.T. Biblioteca hispano-americana (1493-1810)

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

European Americana

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full calf

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: H.T. [i.e. Henri Ternaux-Compans]: gold-tooled stamp on front and rear boards

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